If you notice fire blight among your pear trees, you can take several steps to prevent it from spreading or claiming the life of your tree: 1  Avoid using nitrogen-heavy fertilizers, which encourage rapid shoot growth on trees.  Prune out signs of disease during the summer and during the treeÃ­s dormant season.
Ruby Bridges: Ruby Bridges, American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT: On November 14, 1960, the nation watched as six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School and into history. A federal court ordered the New Orleans school system to desegregate, making Bridges the first African-American to attend the elementary school.